Ruairí McCann on the films of Julius-Amédée Laou.
3 Songs That Got Us Through 2022
Submissions are presented in the order they were received. Click here to see last year’s songs. Yoana Pavlova Nakhane – “Do You Well” (feat. Perfume Genius) Panda Bear & […]
Ghost in the Machine: ‘Hole in the Head’ (2022)
Hole in the Head, the new feature from Dean Kavanagh, is a wonderfully labile rendition of cinematic obsession as a simultaneously profound, absurd, deracinating, and visceral experience.
Cinema is an Open String: Two Early Shorts by Isiah Medina
“Looking at Medina’s earliest work, specifically Semi-auto colours and Time is a sun (2012) reveals much of his ambitious form and preoccupations already set in motion.”
“What a Way to Run a Railroad”—Nothing is Real, not even Cinema, in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s ‘Squish!’
Over the last decade, filmmaker and video artist Tulapop Saenjaroen has been stretching cinema and the short form. Exploring some of the fundamental quandaries of experience: work, play and freedom with a sharp and puckish sense of their history within this long century of moving images.
“Are You Waving The Flag At Me?”—Sly and Prurient Americans at the Berlinale
Ruairí McCann looks back at two distinctly American titles from this year’s Berlinale, one new and one old.
“New York Our Time”—An Interview with Vivienne Dick
Ruairí McCann interviews Irish feminist experimental filmmaker Vivienne Dick about her life’s work.
3 Songs That Got Us Through 2021
Our writers take stock of 3 special songs that got each of them through the dark days in 2021
‘Kiss’
by Ruairí McCann The kiss, that flashpoint of intimacy, communication, and the present tense, has been the subject of art since its prehistory. In Andy Warhol’s Kiss (1963-64), […]